Brexit & UK trade

Michel Barnier has given a few further hints on how he sees the negotiations with Britain unfolding over the country’s exit from the EU in a speech at the European Parliament on Wednesday (22 March 2017). This speech occurs a few days before Britain is expected to trigger its …

There is little reason to doubt that the United Kingdom will sign a free trade agreement with the United States once outside the EU. But there is not going to be that much into it for British businesses. This is because the UK will be the weaker party in …

We’ve listened into the lengthy hearing of the United Kingdom’s Secretary for Exiting the EU David Davis held on Wednesday (15 March 2017) at the House of Commons in Westminster. The hearing comes days ahead of the planned triggering of the UK’s EU withdrawal process. Below some soundbites. The hearing …

A new paper by a former EU trade negotiator released by the think tank Friends of Europe argues that a Brexit that also includes a trade deal while respecting both sides’ red lines is doable in two years. The first priority however will be to secure the rights of the …

David Martin talks to Hermine Donceel about Scotland after Brexit and EU ASEAN trade relations. Scotland could end up voting to leave the United Kingdom and should be allowed to join EFTA, the MEP reckons. As to EU ASEAN relations, the EU must pay more attention to human rights and …

The decision by the United Kingdom to host the first Commonwealth trade minister’s meeting in London on 9 & 10 March certainly smacks of imperial nostalgia. But Iana Dreyer takes a more sanguine view of a meeting that will help simplify the UK’s trade diplomacy post Brexit. The United …

The British government’s ‘glorious visions’ about becoming a global champion of free trade are simply not grounded in reality, writes Guy de Jonquières. Listen to Theresa May, the Prime Minister, and pro-Brexit members of her cabinet such as Boris Johnson, foreign secretary, and the talk is all of glorious …

The European Parliament’s trade committee has undertaken a first appraisal of the possible effects of the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU on the EU’s common commercial policy. MEPs see some changes ahead in the politics of the EU27 bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations and also want the EU to …

Eurosceptic MEP David Campbell Bannerman celebrating CETA in the European Parliament 15-16 February 2017 Wariness about its own future in CETA has replaced Theresa May’s government’s initial enthusiastic embrace the EU’s new trade pact with Canada, Iana Dreyer writes. When the European Parliament ratified the EU-Canada trade agreement …